While big press outlets focus on major investigations into Google and Facebook, a more consequential and farther-reaching case is about to reach a critical stage. In a briefing hosted by ACT | The App Association last week, congressional staff heard from a variety of stakeholders who cautioned that a Qualcomm [...]
Have you ever wondered how app stores determine which apps to show you when you type something into the search bar of the app store on your phone? If so, you’re not alone – the European Commission (EC) has also been asking this question. The EU’s Platform-to-Business (P2B) regulation [...]
Part of a series on the effects of some of the biggest U.S. companies on the app economy. The way that humans have interacted with one another has evolved over millennia. Yet, as we’ve entered the Information Age, we can track a sharp trend toward greater simplicity in how we [...]
Part of a series on the effects of some of the biggest U.S. tech companies on the app economy. The social media website Reddit has styled itself as the “front page of the internet” for years. However, that’s not technically or practically true; in fact, for 68.7% of you, the [...]
By Debbie Rose and Madeline Zick Let’s begin with a riddle. What do mobile apps, poetry, photographs, movies, books, and sculptures have in common? Answer: they are all eligible for copyright protection! The U.S. Copyright Act offers creators protection for original works of authorship, which according to the U.S. Copyright [...]